Tuesday, July 2, 2002

Will Apple join in digital rights management? The readers at MacSlash are talking about the prospects of Apple creating some kind of digital rights management system like Microsoft's Palladium in Apple And Digital Rights Management. 8:32:53 PM comment

More tricks with the OS X Terminal Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 5. Learn how to have your own crontab run a script regularly and email your reports just like system cron jobs. This provides a free and easy way to ensure that your most important data exists on two drives. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 8:19:28 PM comment

Today's notable software updates These are noted from Macupdate.com TinkerTool X 2.2a - This update to the freeware application that offers additional system settings includes a number of bug fixes. Mulberry 3.0a3 - The high-performance IMAP and POP mail client includes enhancements to the new three-pane mail browser and other fixes. Captain FTP X 1.3.1 - An update to the FTPclient that adds new abilities to tie in with BBEdit, additional file information available in remote find mode and a number of other enhancements. MUMenu X 1.0 - A menulet that displays the latest MacUpdate releases in a pull-down menu. Virex Virus Definitions 7/1/02 - Updated virus definitions for Virex. 1:54:26 PM comment

Goodbye to Yahoo Internet Life Ziff Davis' Yahoo Internet Life to fold. Sources close to the company say the Ziff Davis Media publication, which chronicled Net culture, is shuttering operations. [CNET News.com] I only note this because I know and have worked with some people who write for the magazine. Actually, I am surprised that Yahoo Internet Life hung on as long as it did, in light of the dot com collapse and the following poor advertising market that continues today... 12:47:10 PM comment

A priceless look at life inside Apple Adam Curry pointed out this great post today about angrywhitegirl's top-10 tips for fitting in while working at Apple: I had no idea angrywhitegirl worked at Apple. Even nicer to see her recommendations on scoring a job in Cupertino [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 10:40:34 AM comment

Fixes and enhancements in OmniOutliner 2.1b1 OmniOutliner v2.1b1. - OmniOutliner is a scriptable application for OS X which outlines and organizes thoughts, tasks, projects and more. Among the changes: There are now two ways to access cell values (via AppleScript): "text" and "value". [AppleScript Info] 10:21:32 AM comment

Opera will work with Macromedia on Mac products Opera, Macromedia join on Mac efforts. The browser maker signs a deal with the software company to collaborate on products for the Macintosh operating system. [CNET News.com] 10:18:34 AM comment

A note about dwindling Mac Net Journal posts Due to an odd software problem with my Radio installation, I have been unable to post much to Mac Net Journal over the last 24 hours. I am working with the folks at Userland Software to resolve the problem... 7:23:23 AM comment

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